Thank Goodness for Sisters

Thanks to my wonderful sister, the computer guru, I was actually able to save just about all my photos from last year. Yes, I have now backed them all up again (but not double-backed up yet...am I asking for trouble?) I wanted to celebrate by putting up a few of my favorites that I had thought were gone for good. They may not win any awards, but I'm kind of attached to them.

Of course, I'm feeling like quite the computer genius too right now, even though my part of the job was mostly downloading things and trying to follow instructions and type accurately. :)

Otherwise, everything is going pretty well here. School is winding down for the year, and tomorrow is the last soccer game for the season. Next week we're heading to Yellowstone to try and get some trips in this summer before it becomes too late.

Owen is becoming serious about baby preparations now. He looks through all the ads that come to the house and shows me the things we need to get for our baby so we'll be ready. I think it is his cousin Meagan who convinced him babies might be ok, because he commented to me recently that he wished we were having a girl so it would be cute like Meagan. I think he'll have fun with a boy, though.

Robot Feet

Here's the photo of the week. Owen has robot feet.

Yes, we're still alive--and probably not any busier than anyone else, so I have no excuse for not writing. I expect everyone reading this blog already knows all our news, but just to be complete I'll put here that I'm expecting a baby at the beginning of August. I'm very excited that we'll be going in for the ultrasound on Monday. I have been very impatient to find out what color of quilt to make, and whether I should knit little lacy sweaters or little stripy sweaters. Piper really wants a girl. Owen really wants to give the baby away. (I am still talking to him about this--I think he will be a good big brother when the time comes. If I can convince him that babies really don't cry ALL the time, or destroy EVERYTHING in the house.) Quinlan doesn't care either way as long as he doesn't have to move out of his bedroom.

My only other comment for today is, thank goodness for blogs. I think the pictures on this blog may be all there are left of my photos for 2008. Due to a computer virus and a badly timed accident with the external hard drive, I've lost both the original files and the backups of my photos. (ARGHHH! to say the least.) The guys at Hero Computers are still working to see if the hard drive can be reanimated, but I'm not optimistic. I guess we go to double backups now. Maybe I will actually print out some photos this year--what a concept. At least Mike takes pictures too, (and keeps them on a different computer) so all is not lost.